Beautiful Venice!
We originally intended to spend the fall and winter of this year in Italy, which would have included Venice. But with all the changes to our route due to COVID, we put Italy on the back-burner and decided Croatia and …
Lugano: A Homecoming
Of all the places we were to visit during our time in Switzerland, I was most looking forward to Lugano, which is a sort of homecoming for me. I moved to Lugano in 1972 when I was 15 years old …
Swiss Friends
We left Interlaken and made our way to another lake town, Estavayer-de-Lac. This little town had been on and off our schedule multiple times as we plotted and re-plotted our path into and through Switzerland. Estavayer is a little medieval …
Interlaken and the Alps
The sun was still beating down on us as we made our way off the mountain from Engleberg and headed toward one of Switzerland’s most popular places, Interlaken. By the time we arrived at our campsite, I insisted we should …
Lucerne and Engelberg
As mentioned in our previous post, when we crossed the border, we were stopped only to make sure we paid our toll costs/road tax while in Switzerland. What you purchase at this stop is actually a vignette, or as we …
Bruges and beyond
I wish I could tell you that we did Bruges in Belgium justice, but we didn’t. We literally parked up, took a ride around town, looking for lunch and waffles, then after a good sleep at the marina parking lot …
The Netherlands
We had a long day’s drive from our little marina to the Netherlands. We could have split the day and stayed somewhere along the way, but we had a dinner date we did not want to miss. On our route …
By the sea
Since we began our post-lockdown travels, most of our time has been spent visiting cities. Other than the very relaxing days we spent on the Moselle and the Rhine, we’ve visited a few smaller German towns along with Salzburg, Vienna, …
Beating the heat in Berlin
Traveling around Europe in the summertime can be sweaty business. It is damn hot in many parts and we do our best to avoid as many sweltering days as possible. If you have read this blog for any length of …
Pampered in Prague
When we crossed the border from Austria into the Czech Republic, we entered our ninth new country since arriving in Europe nearly 18 months ago. Can you believe we have been here a year and a half? The Czech Republic …